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[ Wednesday, March 19, 2008 05:22 ]

Legacy Journal: Race, Coals to Newcastte, and Wednesday Technology

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Commentary

Summary:
* Race Matters: At a recent URMC New York Society of Cardiology CO-hosted lectureship on the state of genomic research and technology in health, disease and in the retail consumer market, one was able to witness a race based concern. “Why are there not more African-Americans in the studies?” was the question from the only black practitioner in the audience. “ Why are some of the studies not coming from Africa?” No satisfying answer was forthcoming from the expert from California. While the largest private employer in Rochester NY is URMC, ironically, it is dependent on the black community to staff and operate its facilities 24 x 7 x 365. The residents living in the home of Fredrick Douglass has heard and seen it all. The black church, failing inner city public schools, crime in the neighborhoods, limited job opportunities in a street environment rife with petty and organized crime, substance abuse, abandoned property. High taxes, political patronage, and union restrictions are long standing facts of life that colors much of the black perspective.

Coal:

* RIT CMIS : Manufacturing technology institute funded by the Federal Government, the state of New York, and private industry.

Main:
: A new black Superintendent of Public Schools, a new black Governor, and a new black President will not qwell “prophetic” rhetoric from the pulpit, balance the state budget, or eliminate a 200 year old backlog of white guilt. Barak Obama may be perfect poetic fusion messenger to the new generation of American voters, but he can not govern well or effectively , if he is viewed as pandering to the rapidly fading black leadership elites and their supporters-- and they know who they are.

:: Coal production and export report from the nytimes..

::: CIMS is the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies on the RIT campus in Rochester, NY.

Today a OLLI tour group got a dose of sustainability, a lesson in manufacturing, and a perspective on a post Kodak western upstate NY economy. Locally, part of
the manufacturing view of green sustainability is part rehabilitation and waste management. Quality control , systems management of the product cycle, and energy efficiency is part of the package. One demonstration bay had a half million dollar articulated arm laser surface scanner for image input for product design.

Most of the projects are small simulations and tests of critical mechanical parts like aircraft hydolic systems and gearboxes.

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[ Monday, November 19, 2007 13:08 ]

Legacy Journal: Monday Jeopardy: Predictions: Sports, Weather, Economics, Politics, and Religion

Section:
Environment

Summary:
“ When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world “—Zig Zigler And today, we remember Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address and the power of short speech making.

During the past NFL football weekend four state of Oregon Quarterbacks were on the field. Three on the winning side. Clemens of the Jets, A.J. Feeley of Eagles, and Anderson of the Browns won. Harrington entered the game for the Falcons after the game was lost and passed for Atlanta’s only score. Who predicted that combination of scenarios?

Meanwhile, one in five economy handicappers are reported predicting that there is a 50% change of a U.S. recession soon time soon according to one expert interviewed on CNBC. The political pros are playing it close to the vest on the outcomes of the Iowa caucases and the New Hampshire primaries. One expert noted that the Orange Bowl and snow may influence caucus attendance by the young college activists.

Some economists associated with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are proposing a small % of the Global GDPs as a set aside to mitigate carbon dioxide effects and to fund research in alternatives to fossil fuels. That has the sound of roughly $50 billion per year.

Main:
Is the IPCC in danger of committing a moral jeopardy?

* Heavy snow is forecast for the northwest Cascades and the western exposures of northern Rocky Mountains. The upper Green River drainage in Wyoming, the largest tributary of the Colorado River, will benefit In NY, the Bills of Buffalo are once again playing football at 32 degrees.

* Canada and rest of the North American continent continues to supply water to one of the world’s marvels, the Great Lake system connecting ports that link the Heartland to the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

* The two billion dollar U.S. snowboard industry is booming. Burton is ready for a banner season.

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[ Wednesday, November 14, 2007 08:19 ]

Legacy Journal: Lost in Translation: Lessions from the San Francisco Bay

Section:
Environment

Summary:
As a onetime time resident of Sausalito, a lover of our family traditional holiday meal of Dungeness crab, and a fair weather sailor on San Francisco Bay, the coverage of the cargo ship oil spill is of more than a passing fancy. Crab from northern California and Oregon is available on the Wharf and around The City.

* Rodeo beach, a “fouled area” is just around the corner from Sausalito. But, Oracle World attendees from around the world as taking in The City sites.

* Sadly, the swim portion of the weekend San Francisco Triathlon at Treasure Island, off shore from the wharf of tourist Tiburon, was canceled because of the spill.

* The Major of San Francisco was reportedly missing in action while in Hawaii with girl friend, actress Jennifer Sibel. He has now returned and declared a local “disaster”.

* Verbal communication between the Chinese Captain and the local pilot on the bridge of the cargo ship was apparently snarled by technical glitches in both the ship,s radar and mapping systems.

* The Governor is being asked to delay the opening of the crab season by the well organized and well connected Italians that represent the Wharf based commercial fishing fleet. The sport fishing guys are not on board and are still departing with their paying charter clients. Tourist cruises and commuter ferries schedules are apparently unaffected.

* Finally, Intelligent Design on Trial is a recent PBS Nova presentation.

Main:
The size, impact and lasting effects of the spill pales in comparison to the recent storm related Russian oil tanker spill in the in the Strait of Kerch. btween the Black and Azov seas. There, oil in the water was reported to be 2,000 tons, more than 100 times that in the Bay.

Meanwhile, Al Gore, the 100 million dollar man, has announced that he will be an “active partner” in his new VC firm post. He will participate in weekly meeting in person if he is in town, or by video conference from home in Nashville, TN. $2 billion is the 2007 forecast for VC funds for 2007 flowing to “clean technology” firms. California is the center of the universe for the lion’s share of that activity. In the mean time, plan to be responsible during Thanksgiving and earn carbon credits by donating your turkey grease to a biodiesel site near you. Do get a receipt.

Finally, The PBS science series Nova featured a documentary with dramatization on a trial on Intelligent Design and a school board supported change in the curriculum of a public school 9th grade Biology class in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. An interactive website supplements the program website. Included are six short audio clips by presiding District Judge, John Jones,lll. He neatly summarizes for the public the key points of the 126 page written opinion in the case. His interview on the Tuesday, PBS News Hour was a forthright and thoughtful prelude to the program. Judge Johns acknowledged that he received death threats for his part in the case, but that he hopes that science, judicial independence, and education have been well serviced by the opinion and the documentary. Among the target audience are present and future school board members.

In Rochester, the leading candidate for city schools superintendent has been selected by the school board. That candidate is young, foreign born, black, male, a physics teacher, and administrator in the New York City School System. Most, but not all, are happy with the candidate or the selection process. He appears to be a good match for the clear needs of The City schools. USAToday reports that on standardized math proficiency testing, students in Massachusetts, Minnesota, Singapore and Korea continue to excel. Those in Washington, D.C. do not.

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[ Thursday, November 08, 2007 06:47 ]

Legacy Journal: Thusday Fast Tracks: Cognition, the Politics of C02, and Getting Real with Water

Section:
Science and Technology

Summary:
* Exercise if good for executive control and for brain frontal lobes in the opinion of writers for the nytimes. A good case for tuning out television and turning off the computer.

* A view of CO2 trangulation along the banks of the Potomac River: Deep Calculus

* Water Cycle: a view from the Desert. Cowboy math in Arizona beats the Green Felt Jungle in Nevada.

Main:
: The seniors working out at the Brighton, NY JCC get it. Exercise is good for you health, your organs, and your mental functioning. They know about heart function, oxygen delivery, and micro vascular disease. These folks have been to school. They have also sent their kids to some of the best medical school is the country. My partner at the bank of erg machines ( rowing machines) conducted a post doc seminar on exercise, diet, health and the value of parochial education. His education began early, continued as a parent, and now as a student of his daughter who is a resident in Pathology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. Many new friend is also in disease prevention mode. Weight control, beans in his diet, and the the benefits of algae to the health of the environment. However, caveat emptor:

* He, like most, appeared unwilling to accept that while exercising his breakfast was being recycled as carbon dioxide urea and methane with the marvelous magic of his skin, lungs, kidneys and intestines. While trying to compute the energy costs of cooling the fitness room, heating the water in our shower, powering the banks of ‘TV monitors, and fueling our ride to and from the JCC we both experienced a significant senior core meltdown moment. So we parted with a tip of the hat to the biomass people, including U o R Trustee Steve Chu at the Lawrence Lab in far away Berkeley and potential algae farmers in Arizona.

::: Meanwhile, we have learned that 20% of the continental U.S. is desert and by definition, in a permanent state of drought. Reported by PBS Wired Science, Phoenix, Arizona is growing in population while not increasing total water consumption. Part of its water infrastructure is a massive reservoir system that includes both above ground and underground natural systems. This system, like the electrical grid is monitored and controlled by gatekeepers who send water from where it is to where it is need. Neat. Seniors at Sun City are also committing resources to storage, They are donating organs like their brains upon death to projects like research on degenerative disorders of the central nervous system in the elderly.

Appraising , auditing and monitoring water directly and concretely is easy, affordable, and reliable. The same can not be said for the carbon dioxide cycle and the pie in the sky carbon trading systems. So, absent proper appraisal of their present and future value, alternative, inefficient, and subsidize forms of energy production, processing, storage, distribution and use are suspect.

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[ Monday, November 05, 2007 06:40 ]

Legacy Journal: the Flat Lander, the Mountain Climbers, and Climate Change for Dummies

Section:
Environment

Summary:
“I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts”. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

It may seem like piling on folks who are already down, or do what the execs want, or are just victims of their environment, but, east coast, urban based media types like Tom Friedman and Matt Lauer seem out of place lecturing the rest of us on energy and the environment from from their temporary posts in New Delhi and Greenland. In Yolo country, these folks are called “Flat Landers”. They are not known to pedal rickshaws up hills. Then, there is always the uncomfortable but true story of the Vikings and Erik in Greenland. That story is the backdrop for a Wall Street Journal piece by Daniel B. Botkin. We accept the thought of many who are suspicious about possible collusion between the a national business publication that is a new property of an Australian media mogul and an ancient academic slinger named Daniel. But, here we are. And the Jolly Green Giant would be a man named G--- ? He is not someone you can ignore. So, why is Bob Costas and the NFL Sunday crew dimming the set lights.

Meanwhile, from the alma mater of Ann Curry, the University of Oregon, the Dennis Dixon propelled Ducks are 1:7 to be BCS computer matched for a date in New Orleans. But Oregonians will take the Rose Bowl topped off by a Heisman.

Finally, there is the brave new world medical miracles waiting to happen at a WalMart near you. One dream is stem cell research and what is labeled in California, Regenerative Medicine.

Main:
First, Friedman:

* Dr. Friedman’s diagnosis today from New Delhi is that one million low cost, four door, four seat, local manufactured cars a year is just another example of a consumption driven, energy based, environmental hit than can not be sustained. His prescription of preference is compressed natural gas powered buses and expanded mass transit. He is silent on one of the British Colonial legacies, the Indian national rail system, one of the world’s largest. And what about the side effects of asphalt highways with concrete bridges and ramps to protect millions of congested village street users on their way to work and market? The ecologically correct Governator of California is supporting legislation that includes a carbon dioxide pollution tax on the Golden States cement producers.

* Has Dr. Friedman done his research and counted the number of compressed natural gas fueling stations in the sub-continent of India? Does he think that millions of educated, young middle class women in India, or elsewhere for that matter, are willing to fore go the clear social advantages of a drivers license? Tom, many of your readers think you are facing a Hillary moment. Are you a correspondent or an opinion mover, maker and shaker?

* OK, so there are bike friendly places like Portland, Oregon. A nytimes reporter reports that some frame craftsmen are making them at $5,000 Wake up folks the world is not populated by 24 x 7x 365 Lance Armstrong want-a-bees.

* NBC News and the Today show have Green for the rest of the week. One locale for the reality TV reports is an iceberg generating glacier in Greenland. One Lauer guide predicted the possibility of a one foot rise in ocean levels by end of the century. We are among the cautious and the skeptical who are wary and weary of computer models of complex system what are long term, unconfirmed, untested and not whose code and assumptions are not subject to independent and unbiased review and evaluation.

Mountain Climbers::

* The Dennis Dixon led Ducks are on a roll. They have ten days of rehabilitation and prepare for an away game with the University of Arizona Wildcats.

* The Defense is playing tough late in recent games.

* The east coast media oriented sport writers have discovered the Ducks and are increasingly less swayed by their California based counter parts.

* The Nike folks are smartly weighing in .

* In Oregon, the air is clear, the water is pure, and people come to play, stay and live quietly, respectfully, and responsibly.

* BTW, Oregonians do know the way to the New York Athletic Club. Few New Yorkers know the way to the top of MT. Hood.

Stem Cells, Aging and Regenerative Medicine:::

* Two billion dollars in California public funding for stem cell has attracted a lot of attention from the research community and the University of California.

* The Salk Institute, the Scripps Hospital and Research Institute and the Ellison Medical Research Foundation are also involved in aging , stem cell biology, and Regenerative Medicine.

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